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Catastrophic Phase Inversion in High-Reynolds-Number Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow

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Lohse,  Detlef
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Max Planck Society;

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Bakhuis, D., Ezeta, R., Bullee, P. A., Marin, A., Lohse, D., Sun, C., et al. (2021). Catastrophic Phase Inversion in High-Reynolds-Number Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow. Physical Review Letters, 126: 064501. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.064501.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-16B4-4
Abstract
Emulsions are omnipresent in the food industry, health care, and chemical synthesis. In this Letter the
dynamics of metastable oil-water emulsions in highly turbulent (1011 ≤ Ta ≤ 3 × 1013) Taylor-Couette
flow, far from equilibrium, is investigated. By varying the oil-in-water void fraction, catastrophic phase
inversion between oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions can be triggered, changing the morphology,
including droplet sizes, and rheological properties of the mixture, dramatically. The manifestation of these
different states is exemplified by combining global torque measurements and local in situ laser induced
fluorescence microscopy imaging. Despite the turbulent state of the flow and the dynamic equilibrium of
the oil-water mixture, the global torque response of the system is found to be as if the fluid were Newtonian,
and the effective viscosity of the mixture was found to be several times bigger or smaller than either of its
constituents.